Spatiotemporal effects of microsaccades on population activity in the visual cortex of monkeys during fixation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 294-307

  Meirovithz, Elhanan ^a,b   Ayzenshtat, Inbal ^a,b   Werner Reiss, Uri ^a,b   Shamir, Itay ^a,b   Slovin, Hamutal ^a,b  

^a Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fixation; Nonhuman primate; Primary visual cortex; Synchronization; Voltage sensitive dye imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HAPLORHINI; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84858653618     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr102     Document Type: Article

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